The unprecedented radical drift in the global perspectives of higher education, more pertinently, with the upsurge of knowledge-based industries like Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Information Technologies Enabled Services etc., thanks to WTO manoeuvres during the last decade of the twentieth century, gave a great impetus to the national education opening velvet-carpeted lobby for private initiatives to venture upon innovative, research-biased curricula so that the development plans of the country are backed by rich knowledge-capital. With such a noble mission of “Providing an innovative higher education with greater accentuation upon lofty value system and thereby ensuring a strong nation building”, Shri S. Regupathy, the then Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Government of Tamilnadu and presently the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Government of India envisioned a universally acclaimed institution, a hub of multi-disciplinary researches. By dint of his altruistic spurts, the “Karpaga Vinayaga Educational Trust”, a corpus of education-inclined patrons, was constituted.

As its first social endeavour, the J.J. College of Arts and Science was founded on 17th January 1994 at Pudukkottai with approval from the TamilNadu Government and affiliation from the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli to reify the Founder’s intent of benefiting the underprivileged with education in highly job-oriented, emerging fields. Moreover, since the Colleges at Pudukkottai had been confined to conventional courses in fundamental sciences and humanities, the modern higher education in innovative fields of global proclivity was a fairy dream for the Pudukkottai educational province. With the establishment of this College, the Karpaga Vinayaga Educational Trust has obliterated the blemish of “educational myopia ” spotted over the academic nobility of Pudukkottai.

The college initially intended for men, started functioning with two under-graduate courses namely B.Sc. Computer Science and B.Sc. Biochemistry with 48 students on the roll in a small building at North Main Street, Pudukkottai during the even semester of the academic year 1993-1994, as the Government Order and University affiliation were accorded late. In the academic year 1994-1995, the college adopted the co-educational pattern in response to the public demand. In the second year, the courses B.Sc. Microbiology, Bachelor of Hotel Management, and B.Com. were inducted into the curriculum.

The College relocated to the permanent awe-inspiring buildings which are regarded as architectural spectacle in June 1995. Currently, the college is functioning in buildings covering a plinth area of 2,00,000 sq.ft. Situated in the National Highway NH210, seven kilometers south of Pudukkottai which is just 50 km from Tiruchirappalli Airport, the college has easy access by road / rail to any part of the country. In a total area of 45 acres, with the infrastructure of four stately buildings to house octagonal shaped classrooms conforming to the learners’ ergonomics principles, Laboratories, Libraries and the Administrative Block, Hostel complexes for men and women separately, the playgrounds, the cafetaria, the reprography and communication centre, the maintenance wings, bus parking shed, two wheelers parking shed and the Indoor Stadium under construction, the college provides for a learner-friendly environment.

Today, with the curriculum ramified into five schools of excellence viz. School of Biological Sciences, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, School of Management Science, School of Physical Sciences and School of Humanities educating about 2250 students from various parts of the country and overseas in 30 courses including such research programmes as M.Phil. and Ph.D., the college has scaled the pinnacle of educational prominence, in a span of Ten years from inception.